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China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. is an investment holding company. The company through its subsidiaries engages in the provision of cellular and fixed-line voice and related value-added services, broadband and other Internet-related services, information communications technology services, and business and data communications services. The company operates through: Mobile and Fixed-Line segments. The Mobile segment provides global system for mobile communications, and wideband code division multiple access cellular and related services. The Fixed-Line segment offers fixed-line telecommunications and related services, domestic and international data and internet related services, and domestic and international long distance and related services. China Unicom (Hong Kong) was founded on February 8, 2000 and is headquartered in Hong Kong. More »

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China Telecom is scheduled to release its fourth quarter and full year 2014 earnings on March 18. The carrier reported modest results last quarter as its net profit rose about 10% year-over-year (y-o-y) to RMB 16.2 billion ($2.64 billion) in the nine month period ending September 2014, driven by growing 3G-4G and fixed-line broadband subscribers read »

China Telecom continued to show steady improvement in its performance in the Chinese wireless market in the latter half of 2014, as it gained about 2 million new high speed (3G and 4G) subscribers in December and about 11.4 million high speed users in the last six months of 2014. This is a marked increase in the carrier’s subscriber adds read »

It has been 14 weeks, just over three months, since Apple launched the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in ten countries. I have followed their lead-times in ten of Apple’s country websites; on Verizon’s, AT&T’s and Sprint’s websites; Vodafone’s in Australia, Germany and the UK and China Unicom’s since Apple and its partners started taking pre-orders on read »

BMO Capital and Citigroup increased their price targets for Apple’s shares this morning but the stock is trading down $1.50 to about $113.50. Over the past month there have been at least a dozen sell-side analysts who have increased their price targets (see the list below) but it has not moved the stock much higher as it closed at $109.70 on read »

The availability for Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus via China Unicom is shown on China Unicom’s website. It is interesting to compare the lead-times for Apple’s new iPhones on one of the three main Chinese carriers vs. Apple’s and some of its other partner’s sites. (Note that I own Apple’s shares).

Had a bad day at the office or been under the thumb from a demanding boss? Well, you’re probably not alone there. But as I reflected on this following Employee Appreciation Day in the US earlier this month on 6 March – a national holiday that recognizes the value that employees bring to the workplace – I pondered if better practices in this read »

The thrill of bidding and the thump of the gavel that auctions provide don’t necessarily have to be experienced in person—the world learned that from . But Berlin-based Auctionata, which offers those experiences via live webcast, are reinforcing that truth.

The company just announced a €42 million C round of funding (that’s about $45 read »

It seems reasonable to feel like women aren’t getting nearly their due when reports show that only about a quarter of computing jobs are held by women today. Even worse, that’s down from a year ago, when it was more than a third. And several media sources reported heavy disappointment when the jury voted in favor of Kleiner Perkins in Ellen read »

I’m in Europe this week and if there’s anything that will get your brain thinking about customer service it’s travel. From the experience of 12 hours of flying to the AirBNB we arrived in once settled in Prague to the many cafes we frequented, there’s a lot to be curious about. The big question I think about is what makes some people so good at read »

Many fear the creation of monopolies and oligopolies as the cable sector consolidates, but the deal-making frenzy may actually benefit consumers, similar to a frenzy of M&A activity in the wireless sector between 2012 and 2014. read »

Judging by the official unemployment rate, the American economy is getting rapidly back on track. The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent in February 2015, meaning about 8.7 million people were officially unemployed. That rate has fallen dramatically from 10 percent immediately following the financial crisis and is now nearly on par with read »